Non-refillable box.



No. 868,744. PATENTED 00122, 1907.

A. E. WILSON. NON-RBFILLABLB BOX. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 19, 1907.

WITNESSE WM l/Vl/E/VTOR Ayraz Ernest Wilson,

1nd upnms PETERS 50., WASHINGTON, n. c.

ALFRED E. WILSON, OF VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

NON-REFILLABLE BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed June 19, 1907. Serial No. 379,748.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED E. WILsoN, a citizen of Great Britain, residing at Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Non-Refillable Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a box intended to check fraudulent refilling with a possibly inferior class of goods to that represented by the brand or label and is ol such construction that before the entire contents can be removed the box must be destroyed.

Although particularly designed for a cigar box, with slight modifications the device is applicable to other classes of goods.

The invention is fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigar box having my device, Fig. 2, a longitudinal section through the device, and, Fig. 1). a section through the box showing the device in cross section.

In these drawings 2 and 3 represent respectively the front and back of a box of ordinary construction. To the front 2 is secured so as to project across the box a tubular member 4 adapted in cross section to the arti- (:10 which it is required to hold, and to the back 3 is secured a similar member 5 which is telescopically slidable on or in the member l. The box is so constructed that these telescopically slidable members can not be withdrawn from one another to remove the last article which is placed within it without destroying the box.

The principle of the device, as has already been suggested is that one cigar or such other article as the box is designed to hold is placed in the telescopically slidable members .4 and 5 and as each of these memhers is secured to the front or back of the box by rivets or the like that cannot readily be withdrawn, the box must be destroyed to obtain the last cigar or other article.

Although shown in the bottom corner of the box the telescopic receptacle may be secured to correspond with the upper layer and to amplify the protection a band or bands 6 may be. passed over each cigar and pasted to the band of the next one on one side and to the box under the next one on the other side, by which means the cigars are secured in place and the bands must be destroyed before one can be removed.

Having now particularly described my invention and the manner of its application I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

As a non-refillable box, the combination with a box of ordinary construction, of a receptacle adapted to hold a portion of the contents of the box one portion of such receptacle being secured to one side of the box and the other portion to the other side of the box the two portions so secured to be telescopically slrdable in relation to one another.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED E. WILSON.

Witnesses H. E. BURKE, C. W. McCLUnn. 

